Resume Advice

I thought that the article about finding the right key words to get your resume noticed was very helpful. I thought that the advice to search the key words in the requirements and job descriptions on ads was very smart, and i've never thought to do that before. I never really understood how employment databases worked until reading this article.

The next article I read, Eagle-Eyed Employers Scour Resumes for Little White Lies, was really quite surprising to me at first. I could not believe that 43% of all resumes placed on a site had at least 1 inaccuracy. Howeever, as I continued reading, I saw how serious just little innacuries were. For instance, when people said that they were employed for a couple months more than they actually were (to cover up months of unemployment), they were completely thrown out of the database. I agree with this article when they describe that employers realize that people are unemployed sometimes. It takes time to find a new job after leaving a job, and there is no reason to try to cover that up.

Where I want to be in 10 years

I will start with my personal life. Ten years from now, I definitely want to be married. Having companionship and love in my life is very important to me. I want to have at least one child by the time I'm 31, possibly two. I want to eventually have two or three children. While my children are in their infancy, I plan to take a few years off of work and take care of them at home. I hope to be living in a house that I love somewhere in the south east. I would really love to live in the Upstate of South Carolina, Charlotte, or Charleston. I really like the weather in the south, no matter how crazy it may be. I want to travel the world. I have never left the United States. By the time I'm 31, I really hope that I have at least made it to Europe.

After graduating in May of 2008, I hope to have a job that I enjoy. I am not exactly sure of exactly who I want to work for, or what I want to do after graduation. I would not mind finding a job in market research or pharmaceutical sales.